Setting the Mood

October 14, 2022.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Slowed down by illness, I am craving artistic expression, but with 4-year-old boys in the house there is no safe place to art. On top of that, since the computer crash, I have not yet been able to retrieve my photographs or writing. So… I have been playing with the few photos, and stock photos […]

Close Encounters

June 26, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Weekend Sky

Demanding Attention

June 17, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.” Henry Miller ( Linking up with Debbie Smyth’s Weekly Quotation-Inspired challenge.)

Morning Blush

January 9, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Hammad Rais’ Weekend Sky

Brown-eyed

August 21, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Brown eyes unblinkingbat golden lashes skyward –celestial flirt (For Cee’s Flower of the Day.)

To Touch or Not to Touch

August 2, 2020.Reading time 2 minutes.

She was quite eccentric, and visibly older than most of the students attending our program. I’d had five years between first and second year, so I guess she was drawn to my maturity. We both wanted to be teachers. After graduation, she went on to her Bachelor of Education, and I gave birth to my […]

Painted End

July 3, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Creatively painted front porch for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge and a final photo for Bushboy’s last photo of the month, which also happens to be something painted (by yours truly).

Farewell to May

June 3, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

A single yellow bloom. Last photo for May, 2020. Unedited. Bushboy’s challenge. Hope June brings some resolution.

Light The Night

March 4, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Snow lights up the night, adding a magical touch. For Nancy Merrill’s A Photo A Week: Light the Night

Older Than Old

February 26, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

When I was ten, my family travelled to England to visit my father’s family. Grandmother gifted us this odd looking vase, something she claimed to be over a hundred years old. I inherited it when my mother went into a nursing home. Always a conversation piece. This 1,000 year-old tree continues to thrive on Goose […]

This Life A Road

This life a road –the way preparedsigns to guide me,and still, I get lost. Construction, distraction,disobedience – throw me off –tendency to choose tougher routes,broken down and been sidelined And yet, the road still beckons,invites progression, thrills.A rolling stone gathers no moss,my father liked to say, and so… I push ahead, keep motoring,trust the obstacles […]

Wings

(Written during my bedbound years with ME/CFS)

Myalgic Encephalomyelitis

May is Myalgic Encephalomyelitis awareness month. Also known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, this disease is characterized by exhaustion after exertion. The exertion can be physical -taking a shower; emotional – worrying or obsessing; or mental- filling out forms. The best source of information about ME/cfs, as we call it, is the Bateman Horne Center. They […]